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New York Times, Saturday, September 23, 2006

Author:
Matthew Lees
Editor:
Will Shortz
With 9-Across, informally, what aleph-null is, in mathematics
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {GJKQYZ} This is puzzle # 4 for Mr. Lees. Grid flow: 28.2 Saturday freshness: 47%
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© 2006, The New York Times9/23/06 ( No. 20,773 )
Across
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With 9-Across, informally, what aleph-null is, in mathematics : INFINITE
9
See 1-Across : NUMBER
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Old salts : NORSEMEN
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"Willow Song" source : OTELLO
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Rivals of the Buckeyes : SPARTANS
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Knights, by nature : HEROES
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"Modern Gallantry" essayist : ELIA
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Prefix with gram : CENTI
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Turn in a game : MOVE
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Yarborough of Nascar : CALE
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Shy : START
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On ___ (equipotent) : APAR
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Antigen identifier : TCELL
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Sp. name preceder : SRA
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Fourth número primo : SIETE
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Set : SERIES
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Like aleph in the central black squares of this puzzle's grid : EMBEDDED
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Truncation indication: Abbr. : ETC
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Certain jazz soloist : SAX
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Face to face : INPERSON
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Gerrymander, say : REDRAW
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They're expected : NORMS
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By : VIA
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Devil : DEUCE
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On : ATOP
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Canal banks : BERMS
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Check inside?: Abbr. : ENCL
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Gush : RAVE
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Ballade ender : ENVOI
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Lord's body: Abbr. : PARL
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Cyberhandle : USERID
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Performers : ARTISTES
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Fought : STROVE
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Revolt : NAUSEATE
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With 65-Across, what aleph begins, in linguistics : HEBREW
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See 64-Across : ALPHABET
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Web site frequenters? : INSECTS
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Neither here nor there : NOPLACE
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Not so stout : FRAILER
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Like the Merkava battle tank : ISRAELI
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Basket material : NET
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Apples for the teacher, maybe : IMACS
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Positions : TENETS
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Trammel : ENSNARE
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Superbly pitched : NOHIT
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___ War in Colorado, 1879 : UTE
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Swimmer with three appendages : MERMAID
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Hit a Texas leaguer : BLOOPED
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Buoy : ELEVATE
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Shade similar to cherry wine : ROSERED
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Some British lines : TRAMS
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Bad looks : LEERS
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Private instruction? : SEXED
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Parts of some grids: Abbr. : STS
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Cordial surroundings? : BAR
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Group of 13 : COVEN
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Hurried : INARUSH
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A love of kitsch, e.g. : NOTASTE
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Certain Bartlett's listing : PROVERB
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Montezuma, for one : EMPEROR
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Bliss : NIRVANA
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Bathysphere's place : DEEPSEA
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Put off paying, perhaps : RUNATAB
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Grow together : ACCRETE
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Strongly built : WELLSET
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Unlikely to preach : AMORAL
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Moisten : BEDEW
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Show sudden interest : SITUP
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Elvis Presley's "___ Lost You" : IVE
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Girl chaser? : ISH

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